Michel Foucault and Queer Theory
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- Michel Foucault is the most important public intellectual in recent times. Although he died in 1984 of AIDS, the first public figure in France to do so, and was a highly influential figure in his time, his influence grew almost exponentially thereafter. It is the 'queering' influence of academic discourse by writers such as Foucault and Judith Butler who have also bequeathed to us the previously novel idea of gender identity.
What this lecture seeks to do is to discuss the broad issues related to language and power that Foucault's writing highlights. While I will find myself in agreement with the problems bequeathed to us by Enlightenment notions of humanity that Foucault catalogues in his voluminous scholarship, I will also question whether in the name of emancipation and empowerment the performance of writers like Foucault have in fact enslaved us in an entirely arbitrary and powerless experience of human nature. Our understanding of life has been 'queered.'
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I don't "identify" as a woman any more than I identify as being 5'5". I'm a woman because i'm female, which is an empirically verifiable reality.
Wrong.
@@filip1261 Muppet.
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Will the damage from Michel Foucault ever be undone?
It will one day, but his worldview has had untold influence on the generation of scholars that followed.
@@LitProf what damage? Foucault's work has aided in the liberation of countless individuals and will go on to liberate even more through his interpretation and dissection of the ways in which power operates.
@@LitProf foucaults work is an extension and elaboration on the work of Nietzsche and is as essential as Deleuze in understanding Nietzschean concepts
@@chatchit8880 They both are scumbags and corrupted idiots.
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This lesson provides a solid foundation for understanding the fundamentals of Queer Theory /and the ramifications of its influence for humanity. Many thanks.
The arts are the place where people express themselves. That’s why it is important that the arts are uncensored.
Painting and drawing are very direct activities. Music can be made without any technology by singing and clapping.
Censorship is the only threat to people expressing themselves via the arts.
What were Foucaults thoughts on the age of consent? lol don't look it up, unless you think there should be none down to the age of infants
Exactly! He petitioned the French government to abolish the age of consent. Even though it was 15. He felt children younger than that could decide if they wanted to have sex with adults. He was a sick arrogant man.
@@hairelementsproductsceo I think he was skeptical of the state interfering with and imposing their power onto the realm of sexuality. Foucault's work is in part about the ways in which power shapes norms and divides "the normal" from "the deviant" in order to create a more governable and docile populace. Also don't forget to mention every single prominent French philosophers at the time signed that petition
People who bring this up the minute Foucault is brought up in discourse are so fucking mind rottingly retarded.
@@chatchit8880 “every single prominent French philosopher at the time signed that petition”
So you’re saying they are all pederasts? Because that would make sense to me lol
@@kuomaxis5137 Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre and Foucault they signed a manifesto in order to reduce the age of consent in France. They were pedofiles trying to avoid going to prison because of their sickness. Simone herself was bisexual and she abused female students whom he transferred to Sartre to be used sexually, with whom they had threesomes. That's why she was expelled from teaching.
Firstly thank you so much for this. I wanted to know if you could provide me a link for Peter Sandlin's book?
Peter Sanlon. www.amazon.com/Plastic-People-Changing-Latimer-Studies/dp/0946307830
@@LitProfget a better audio set up, dawg.
👍 one question, you mentioned the Victorians having non Christian morals, what is this based on? In my mind and comparing them to the regency period they were substantially more moral, and there were various religious revivalist movements.
I take Matthew Arnold as an exemplary figure. Chadwick's The Secularisation of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century is a good place to look.
@@LitProf thanks I'll take a look
Jewish Communists? Isn’t that a serious anachronism?
I cannot understand why Foucault and Butler’s theories have been so enthusiastically taken on by academia. They could have just been ignored or kept on the sidelines but instead have found fertile ground in which grow and flourish.
Because Foucault is cool.
@@chatchit8880Foucault was intelligent and wealthy enough to do whatever he wanted.
Cool?🕳️
Because they want to push chaos and destruction on society and they served as agents creating theories in order to push their agenda.
@@chatchit8880 A sick communist and pedophile, molester of minors whom he paid for sex, addicted to sadomasochism and various drugs. perfect to create absurd theories in order to justify the destruction of western society.
Because academics are idiots
Covid ?
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@@LitProf you have a strange cough during the presentation, and I don’t know why , I fixed my mind on that ….
I don’t think so. Sorry for the distraction.
@@LitProf I enjoyed very much lessons, learned a lot, and wish you will make more videos
More will be coming in September
Thank you for giving the kiddie diddler a platform
I don’t think I have given the most-widely cited academic of the past thirty years a platform.
Totally agree, they advocate for Paedophiles, don't believe in non consenting children.
43:01 Come on professor. Given the subject matter that you are covering, you and I both know that wasn’t just “an observation.” There is no such thing as a neutral observation. You knew exactly what you were doing when you were bringing up Focault’s sexual activities. You are trying to make the case that Focault is arguing against sexual nature in favor of gender identity as a way to justify his excessive homosexual promiscuity. You insinuate that it is excessive by casually mentioning the “objective” fact that he died of AIDS. Thereby proving Focault’s point that there is no such thing as a neutral observation. There is always a biased assertion being made behind every seemingly passive observation which is what you just did.
Et tu quo que.
It was actually an aside, but of course the connection is obvious and quite possibly significant.
By your own logic, Foucault’s whole exercise in an ‘archaeology’ of institutional scholarship was not a neutral exercise but rather had the characteristics of what we call ‘motivated reasoning.’
Foucault was precisely trying to justify degeneracy. And yes, there is no such thing as a 'neutral' law. FAAFO.
Basically.
Bullshit